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This is sad, this tower should be much taller, its in the heart of downtown with towers reaching up to 1,000ft and they decide to build a 300ft tower. Waste of land, furthermore, it will look nice, nothing we can do about it now, well I don’t think we can.

Probably a difficult spot for the developer. They want to build it as they have the entire thing leased already, yet would obviously then prefer to have more room to lease. It’s unfortunate the process our city makes developers go through, possibly the most irritating thing about this city to me.

I remember some earlier reports about this project, in which the developer said they would like to have gone taller, but couldn’t make it pencil out, financially, due to the lot’s relatively small footprint.

Golly gosh I can’t wait to ride my bike downtown to work in one of those awesome shadowed windows you can see in this picture. It will be so nice to avoid sun damage to my skin while working! Life is short — I say spend it pedaling to these shiny office towers and relaxing afterward in my 175 sq foot apartment!

Mark, you are correct. Based on the lot size, it didn’t make sense for the developer to go taller as an office tower. FAR restrictions may have also played into the decision. If the developer wanted to build a residential or hotel tower, it probably could have penciled out to build a tower to the maximum height limit allowed of 700′.